For those interested in alternatives to an Adobe Create Cloud subscription, Affinity have finally released their Publisher equivalent to InDesign. I'm a regular InDesign user, but I've played with the Affinity Publisher beta and bought a copy. It's rather nice and makes InDesign feel like the dinosaur it is. It's far more fluid and easier to use.
That said, InDesign is tied to many production workflows, but as a standalone DTP tool I'm very impressed so far (same for Designer and Photo, both very capable alternatives to Illustrator and Photoshop). There may be missing features, that said, I'm not that sure what InDesign has added to the days when I used PageMaker 6.5. Unless you use exciting things like liquid layout, which seems more trouble than its worth.
Nope, they're not paying me for this.